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Sophie Fox
Nov 6, 20242 min read
PLAYTECH - Artist Opportunity
>>> DEADLINE EXTENDED to midday 6th December 2024 <<< We are looking for an artist to join our PLAYTECH team. PLAYTECH is an open-ended...
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Sophie Fox
Oct 31, 20241 min read
Time & Space Collaboration Opportunities
We are looking for expressions of interest from freelance, socially engaged arts practitioners and theatre makers for our Time&Space...
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Sue Parr
Aug 12, 20244 min read
Memories from First Light Festival with Suffolk Artlink
Image Credits to Suffolk Artlink and Lewis Wickwar. A beautiful sunny day! Me and Natalie Willis met at Stonecutters Way and filled our...
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Nat Whitney
Apr 30, 20243 min read
Rethinking my connection to movement and music
Hello I’m Nat and I’m an audio-visual participatory artist and between September 2023 and March 2024 I was a trainee early years music...
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Sue Parr
Feb 5, 20244 min read
Interactions with the sand, sea, stones and grasses
Reflections on some of my learning whilst taking part in Magic Acorns' - The Nest - 28th September- 12th October 2023 This aims of The...
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Sophie Fox
Jan 22, 20241 min read
Magic Online Spring Buffet!
A pick and mix of some of our favourite things! Our Magic Online Spring Programme is here - offering a variety of delights for you to dip...
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Sue Parr
Jan 22, 20243 min read
I could only hum but others were singing
On the 14th and 15th of July last Summer I took part in Early Years Incubate. This was a two day professional development opportunity...
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Chris Dowding
Nov 9, 20233 min read
The Nest - Games, Guides and Groupings
This blog will explore some of the themes that came out of The Nest project, for me, in September & October 2023 in Great Yarmouth. The...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20231 min read
Takeshi Matsumoto - Early Years Incubate 2024
Club Origami creator, Takeshi Matsumoto is joining us next February to offer a three-day workshop which invites participants to delve...
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Sophie Fox
Oct 4, 20231 min read
The Nest
The Nest is a series of creative events funded by Arts Council England for 0-3 yr olds and their parents/carers. The events are taking...
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Sophie Fox
May 19, 20231 min read
Artist Bursaries!
This is an amazing opportunity for two artists to join Magic Acorns for creative professional development 'Early Years Incubate' and 'The...
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Sophie Fox
May 18, 20232 min read
Join our Early Years Incubate this Summer!
Early Years Incubate is a very special one-off professional development opportunity to work with Helena Rodrigues of Companhia de Música...
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Sophie Fox
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Opportunity - Join us for a creative, playful traineeship!
The deadline for this opportunity has now passed. Please sign up to our mailing list to hear about our next traineeships. We are looking...
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Sophie Fox
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Magic Online - Early Years Creation Course.
Join us for this amazing opportunity to learn with theatre maker, designer and performer Joy Haynes on this very special Magic Digital...
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Barbara Cavanagh
Jan 3, 20235 min read
LOOKING BEYOND
Over the past few weeks I have been watching and rewatching videos of Magic Acorns’ projects. It has got me thinking about two things in...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 16, 20221 min read
"The first thing that struck me was the vulnerability."
In this final episode of the Germination podcast series Dr. Jessica Pitt is in conversation with Dr. Mary Stakelum, academic, outside eye...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 14, 20221 min read
Acorn Network - Licensed to be Creative!
Brilliant to spend the afternoon at the University Centre of West Anglia in Kings Lynn last week for our latest Acorn Network. There...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20221 min read
"Time disappears, this is what it must be like for a child playing"
In the second episode of the Germination Podcast series Jess Pitt is in conversation with Hope Watson, Gemination mentee and early...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 2, 20221 min read
"It felt like it was filling my heart and soul."
Earlier this year we spoke to Bella who was one of the participants who took park in our Germination project. Germination was a...
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Sophie Fox
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Making Connections - Acorn Network
Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk Artlink and Suffolk Libraries co-curated this network day, sharing their ongoing projects around early years...
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